CAMBRIDGE, MASS. - The Dartmouth women's hockey team
dropped the second game of its best-of-three ECAC Hockey Tournament
Quarterfinal series to No. 6 Harvard, 4-0, on Saturday afternoon at the Bright
Hockey Center.

The Crimson swept the series, 2-0, to advance to the semifinals next
weekend.

With the loss, the Big Green end the season 16-10-5. The team from the Upper
Valley began the weekend 12th in the latest USCHO.com PairWise Rankings, which
mimic the method used by the NCAA selection committee as it chooses the eight
teams that make the NCAA Tournament. After the early exit, Dartmouth's season
will most likely come to an end.

Since advancing to the conference championship game in 2011, The Green and
White have been bounced from the ECAC Hockey Tournament in the first round the
last two seasons.

For the first time under Head Coach Mark Hudak, Dartmouth finished the
2012-13 slate winless against ranked teams going 0-7-3 against top-ten
programs.

Harvard jumped out to an early lead as Lyndsey Fry scored on the opening
shift of the game. Fry skated in front and flipped a backhand by Dartmouth
goaltender Lindsay Holdcroft for her 15th marker of the year just 17 seconds
into play.

The Crimson continued to pressure the Big Green in the first as Fry had a
scoring chance point blank two minutes later, but Holdcroft made a nice stick
save sliding across the crease. Six minutes into the game, Fry had another
opportunity on the doorstep and Holdcroft made a diving save to keep the game a
one-goal contest.

In the second period, Dartmouth stole back some of the momentum early on as
freshman Laura Stacey and sophomore Karlee Odland each had scoring chances.
Stacey fired a shot from the slot that was turned away by Crimson goaltender
Emerance Maschmeyer and Odland's wrap around attempt was covered up by the
freshman netminder.

Fry took the wind out of the Big Green's sails with three minutes left in
the second as she scored on the power play. The Crimson stretched their lead to
four in the final period netting a pair of goals. Kaitlin Spurling and Mary
Parker gave Harvard some insurance as Maschmeyer recorded her second straight
shutout.

Holdcroft made 22 saves in a losing effort for the Big Green.

The game marked the final collegiate game for nine seniors on the Dartmouth
roster. During their tenure, the class of 2013 posted a 67-43-9 overall record,
a 48-31-7 mark in ECAC Hockey and a 24-13-3 Ivy record. As sophomores, they won
four straight postseason games to advance to the ECAC Hockey championship game.
The seniors also appeared in the ECAC Hockey Tournament four times.